Solo dev builds an interruptible two-host AI podcast app for any moment in history
Goldenchild123 · reddit · 2026-10-01
A solo developer unveiled historai.ca: type any historical moment, topic, or person and get a researched two-host podcast with sources and period artwork in about two minutes, no account needed.
- Killer interaction: press the mic mid-episode to ask anything; the hosts answer and weave it back into the story — like interrupting a real podcast.
- Multi-model pipeline: instead of one model, the dev ran bake-offs across GPT, Claude, and Gemini and picked a winner per job (research/planning, scriptwriting, artwork, voices), finding the differences bigger than expected — some models write great dialogue but plan poorly, and costs vary widely.
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